Prentiss Mellen

Prentiss Mellen (11 October 1764-31 December 1840) was a US Senator from Massachusetts from 5 June 1818 to 15 May 1820, succeeding Eli P. Ashmun and preceding Elijah H. Mills. He was a Federalist Party member.

Biography
Prentiss Mellen was born in Sterling, Massachusetts in 1764, and he became a lawyer in 1788. He moved to Portland, Maine in 1806, and he served on the Governor's Council from 1808 to 1809 and in 1817, as well as serving as a trustee of Bowdoin College from 1817 to 1836. In 1818, he was elected to finish Eli P. Ashmun's US Senate term, but he resigned in 1820 when Maine acquired statehood, becoming the first justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He died in 1840.